Question
This author described a nuclear test as the “final act of betrayal by a ruling class that has failed its people” in the essay “The End of Imagination.” In a novel by this author, the security guard Saddam Hussein moves into a graveyard with an intersex person. In a novel by this author, six policemen create a haunting smell of “old roses” when they beat up a man in the History House. Ammu is ostracized for her affair with (*) Velutha in a novel by this author, in which a boy is molested at a screening of The Sound of Music by the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man. The debut novel by this author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ends with the siblings Rahel and Estha having a relationship. For 10 points, name this Indian author of The God of Small Things. ■END■
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